Technology

59105 readers

3275 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

144

Google lays off hundreds on recruiting team (www.semafor.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Google lays off hundreds on recruiting team::The tech giant is making the move as hiring slows, but says it will retain a significant majority of recruiting staff.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Larger companies are extremely siloed. I would imagine that Google is even worse since it has some very distinct business separations. (ie: Alphabet is "not" Google)

When mass layoffs happen, there are still going to be other lines of business that are hiring. People can get fired from one, talk to a recruiter and walk to another business.

Edit: In some weird cases, a single group could be forced to meet layoff AND hiring requirements. That only makes sense at the executive level where they are looking at numbers as a whole and not the line-level logic.

My experience is isolated to large US banks though. Layoffs were more like a huge game of musical chairs rather than thousands of people actually leaving the company.

Edit: It's also super easy to bury a single persons grievances as well. Sure, there could have been some nasty things happening at work, but retaliation by mixing up someone into a mass layoff is also a thing.

Once the sub-business layoffs are done and people have found a new seat, recruiting and HR are next in the crosshairs.

This is not always the case! However, it is common for mega-corps, in my personal experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've seen the same thing, also at large banks. I call it management by spreadsheet. The executives make the numbers work on their spreadsheets, with little care for how ridiculous the implementation is on the ground.

BTW, you guys hiring? ;-)